All sounds

All sounds

Wanlaiming (1900.1.18-1997.10.7) is laiweng, whose stage name is Ma Chi. World animation master, art master, founder of Chinese animation film, world famous director, one of the 500 celebrities in modern world. He is from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Eternal Toad's twin brother. He taught himself painting when he was young. In 1919, he joined the Shanghai Commercial Press and successively worked in the art department and the activity film department. In 1925, shuzhendong Chinese typewriter, an animation advertisement made with brother guchan, was the rudiment of Chinese animation. In 1926, he joined the great wall picture company and worked together to produce the first animated film "the studio of havoc". He went to Hong Kong in 1949 and returned to Shanghai in 1954 as an animation director of Shanghai Art Film Studio. He is the third and fourth director of China Film Association. He has directed color animation short films such as "encounter in the wild" and "big red flower". From 1961 to 1964, he created a large-scale color animation "havoc in heaven" (Part I and part II).

Life figures

He was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Good at film animation, Chinese painting. In his early years, he was engaged in the research of fine arts, Chinese and Western painting, cartoon design and drawing, and explored the production of animation in the form of Chinese painting.

He and WAN Gu Chan are twin brothers. They like painting since childhood. In 1919, they entered the Shanghai Commercial Press and successively worked in the art department and the activity film department. He mainly creates advertising pictures, and draws illustrations and covers for magazines. In the 1920s, inspired by American cartoons, Wan Laiming began to study animated films with his three younger brothers, Wan guchan, Wan Chaochen and Wan Dihuan, in connection with the projection principles of Chinese walking lantern, shadow play and moving mirror. In 1925, he began his animation career with Wan Gu Chan in making the animation advertisement "Shu Zhen Dong Chinese typewriter". In 1926, he cooperated with Wan Gu Chan to produce the first Chinese cartoon "Da Nao studio" for the great wall picture company. In 1930, he also produced short films such as paper man making trouble for Greater China film company. Since 1931, he has successively produced animation short films in Lianhua film company and star film company, such as compatriots wake up quickly (1931), sincere unity (1931), history of national pain (1932), blood money (1932) and so on, which publicize the Anti Japanese War, flying disaster (1932), tortoise and rabbit race (1932), locust and ant (1932) and so on. In 1935, China's first audio cartoon camel was produced

Dance. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, we also produced the animation short films "Anti Japanese War special" (1938), "Anti Japanese War slogans" (1938) and "Anti Japanese war songs" (1938). In 1940, Wan brothers created the first animated film "Princess Iron Fan" in Asia, which was more than 8000 feet in length in Shanghai, and reached a new level in animation skills. In 1954, Wan Laiming returned to Shanghai from Hong Kong and became the director of Shanghai Art Film Studio. He successively produced cartoons such as encounter in the wild (1955) and big red flower (1956).

He has published the album beauty of human expression and human pattern, magic pen and so on.

Anecdotes

When Zeng Wanming took part in a fund-raising party for the founding of new China, he took part in a silhouette. At that time, it cost HK $5 for guests and stars to dance a dance, while it cost HK $20 for wanlaiming to cut her own shadow. Wan Laiming's favorite animal is monkey. His "Princess Iron Fan" and "making havoc in heaven" all take monkey as the leading role. He once said, "who is the first Chinese in the world to go to heaven? The monkey king.

On October 7, 1997, Wan Laiming, 97 years old, died.

"Havoc in heaven" is a masterpiece made by hand, which is still a classic after 50 years.

Wanlaiming's tombstone is designed as a roll of unfolded film, accompanied by the supernatural and powerful Monkey King.

ties carried over from the previous life

In the winter of 1920, in a lane on tiantong'an road in Zhabei, Shanghai, the neighbors can often see that there is a pavilion, which is always brightly lit all night. It seems that the tenants never sleep. Curious people can't help asking about it in many ways. It turns out that this is a special film laboratory, and a special creative team, the four brothers of Wan family, is doing experiments on cartoons. The names of the four brothers are Wan Jiazong, Wan Jiaqi, Wan Jiajie and Wan Jiakun. When people know they're doing cartoons

After the experiment, they were given a funny Title: Wanshi cartoon.

When the four brothers later created art films, their names were Wan Laiming, Wan guchan, Wan Chaochen and Wan Dihuan, respectively. Wan Laiming, the eldest brother, and Wan guchan, the second, are twin brothers. They are very similar in appearance, and many old friends will mistake them. "Wanshi four brothers" completed the first Chinese and Asian animated feature film "Princess Iron Fan" in 1941. Wan Laiming went to Hong Kong in 1949 and returned to Shanghai in the autumn of 1954 as director of Shanghai Art Film Studio.

It's Wan Laiming's dream to animate journey to the west, especially the most exciting part of Monkey King's "havoc in heaven". In an article, Wan Laiming once expressed his unfinished fate with the monkey king, "in the old society, I was full of bitterness and could not realize this wish. I've been depressed because I've been running all day and lobbying everywhere. I've really been looked down upon by capitalists. I'm glad that some capitalists are willing to invest in filming. I've spent more than half a year in my business. But in the end, my wish is still in vain. The capitalists suddenly changed their tune and ordered to stop filming. Because of soaring prices, selling film drugs is more profitable than making films More than that. I've been desperate for it, because the animation industry has died in its infancy, and I feel that it's impossible for me to make "havoc in heaven" into an animation in my life

thoroughly to remould oneself

One of the characteristics of animation is the uniqueness of character modeling. Plane animation only in accurate, vivid and beautiful modeling can give the characters a variety of different personalities and temperament, so that they become vivid images. Wan Laiming once said that he was familiar with the image of the monkey king. Before liberation, he had done modeling design for several main characters in journey to the West. But today, the image of the monkey king on the screen has changed completely. We should treat the monkey king as a comic little figure from the Perspective of novelty and interest of the story.

It is also a very arduous task to adapt the original work of journey to the West into the literary script of "making havoc in heaven". After Wan Laiming, the director and another screenwriter Li Keqiang take over the task of adaptation, they first face the problem of whether they dare to "touch". Results the first seven chapters of journey to the West were selected to reflect the sharp conflict and struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed, which was of profound practical significance. Therefore, in the literary script of "havoc in heaven", the dramatic contradictions were mainly expressed between the monkey king and the ruler headed by the Jade Emperor, and the brave, resourceful, indomitable and unyielding character of the monkey king gradually grew up in this conflict .

Fulfill your long cherished wish

Mr. Wan Laiming clearly remembers the scene of the last dubbing. "In the recording booth, the drums are thumping and killing. The musicians of Shanghai Film Orchestra are playing percussion instruments enthusiastically, making a strong and rhythmic sound. The monkey king has appeared on the big screen for hundreds of times. I still watch him with interest. On that day, the monkey king seemed to be extraordinarily energetic, brave and vigorous. He was wearing a goose yellow coat, red trousers, a tiger skin skirt around his waist, an emerald green scarf around his neck, a golden cudgel, and Nezha, who was on the wheel of wind and fire. The sound of gongs and drums became more and more intense. It was a fierce fight. I was staring at the screen, and my mood became more and more excited. The vicious and changeable Nezha is not the opponent of the monkey king. He loses the wind and fire wheel and is defeated. The monkey king points to Nezha, who is in a dilemma and runs away, and laughs I breathed a sigh, the monkey king's joy, the victory of laughter suddenly seized my feelings, a strong sense of happiness, immersed in my whole body, I also laughed. For more than a year, Sun Wukong, who has been living with him day and night on paper, has finally stood in front of me vividly. For more than 20 years, Sun Wukong, who has been deeply concerned and eager to see animation, has finally been born. But, somehow, my eyes are moist. “

Wukong in heaven

Wanlaiming once said: who is the first Chinese in the world? Sun WuKong.

On October 7, 1997, 97 year old Wan Laiming died quietly. There is no epitaph on the old man's tombstone. The tombstone is designed as a roll of unfolded film. A cloud covered Huaguo Mountain leaps out of the beloved sun Dasheng, who sets up a shed and looks around. After nearly a century, the founder of China's animation industry has gone to sleep, accompanied by the powerful Monkey King.

Main works

At the beginning of 2013, Mr. Wan Laiming signed his name. There are 32 paintings with seals or inscriptions, of which there are few authentic works. Some of them are painted by others and signed by wanlao. Some of them were painted by others and signed by Wan Lao after revision. Some of them signed up after others painted with him. In the historical process of anti superstition in New China, there were demons and ghosts among wanlao's three dozen Baigujing

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